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Letter to EBRD regarding environmental and social policy requirements of the Tbilisi railway bypass project

Advocacy letter | 30 October, 2009 | Download PDF

a BELENE chronology

Briefing | 26 October, 2009 | Download PDF

A fact sheet chronologically outlining the events and developments of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project from 1981 until October 2009.

Letter to EIB regarding the bank’s Board discussion of the South Ukraine Transmission Project

Advocacy letter | 20 October, 2009 | Download PDF

The EIB is considering approval of the loan for Ukrenergo for the South Ukraine Transmission Project. Bankwatch member group NECU, as well as other concerned NGOs and individuals, have deep misgivings about the unexpected rush of the EIB in considering this project when currently its environmental impact assessment process is still ongoing according to EBRD and Ukrainian procedures, it is still far from being positively completed.

Complaint to EIB regarding refused access to information on D1 motorway Slovakia

Official document | 19 October, 2009 | Download PDF

Bankwatch’s complaint, submitted to EIB Complaints Mechanism, addresses the lack of disclosure of documents concerning the construction of the D1 Phase I Motorway in Slovakia. This complaint follows one submitted by Bankwatch member group CEPA, Slovakia dealing with the environmental aspects of the motorway’s construction.

Letter to EIB regarding a planned loan for ArcelorMittal

Advocacy letter | 19 October, 2009 | Download PDF

The letter by NGO coalition Global Action on Arcelor Mittal (GAAM), follows the discovery of EIB considerations of a loan for steel company ArcelorMittal and informs the EIB of ArcelorMittal’s extremely poor environmental, social and transparency record in many countries. As the worlds largest steel company ArcelorMittal could access financing from other sources, and there is no added value in providing a low-interest public loan to the company. GAAM and Bankwatch therefore urge the EIB not to approve any loan to ArcelorMittal in the foreseeable future.